IGWT Institute for Games, Written-narrative & Tropes is a Canadian not-for-profit research institute and publisher based in Toronto, Ontario. The institute conducts critical and scholarly study of digital games as an art form, visual novels, interactive narrative, animation, and related East Asian popular media arts.
IGWT Institute for Games, Written-narrative & Tropes is incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (Corporation No. 1835832-0, incorporated November 4, 2026) and registered in Ontario as an extra-provincial corporation (Ontario Corporation No. 1001803755), with its registered office in Toronto, Ontario. By-law No. 1 was filed with Corporations Canada in November 2026, and the corporation's financial year ends on December 31.
The corporation has no share capital, and any operating surplus is applied solely to the institute's purposes and is not distributed to members. Directors and officers serve without pay, and the institute currently accepts no funding, donations, or sponsorship.
Edward Huang is the Founder and Director of IGWT Institute and an undergraduate in Sociology and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. He writes long-form criticism on games, visual novels, animation, and internet visual culture, and has held research and editorial roles in the game industry.